Biography of Evgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko. Evgeny Yevtushenko: biography, creativity and interesting facts from the life of the poet

The 47-year-old artist died in a mental hospital in the capital.
A tragedy occurred in the family of Yevgeny Yevtushenko. The 47-year-old son of the famous poet Pyotr Yevtushenko died in one of the Moscow hospitals. Doctors treated him for mental illness for six months, but the artist’s heart suddenly stopped. His body was cremated, but not buried until the arrival of Evgeniy Alexandrovich, who was in the USA at that time.

Pyotr Yevtushenko is the adopted son of the famous poet and Galina Sokol-Lukonina. After their divorce, the boy stayed with his mother, but his father did everything so that the boy did not feel deprived. And in the States he helped him get an education, and made him a separate apartment, and he didn’t deprive him of money. But for some reason, fate often punishes the children of celebrities. So Peter was no exception.
“Galya, or Galla, as she was often called, was an interesting but harsh woman,” said prose writer Alla Rakhmanina. - I loved Yevtushenko all my life, but did not forgive his endless betrayals. She was businesslike, but didn’t work a single day. Her first husband was the writer Mikhail Lukonin. When Galya was married to him, she had an affair with the poet Alexander Mezhirov. Misha was terribly jealous, but could not do anything... Even the writer Vasily Aksenov almost married Gala. Sometimes she said that she regretted leaving Yevgeny Yevtushenko. After her death, Petya started drinking.
To find out about the life together of Galina and Evgeny Yevtushenko (they got married in 1961 - N.M.), we contacted a family friend, Natalya Shmelkova.


Natalya Shmelkova with Pyotr Yevtushenko at the opening of his exhibition of paintings (Photo from the archive of Natalya Shmelkova)
“I’m shocked why I, his mother’s closest friend, was not informed about Petya’s death,” Natalya Alexandrovna said with offense. - Probably because I wrote in my book how the poet Lenya Gubanov once shouted in response to Yevtushenko’s criticism: “You are shit!” You will soon be forgotten, but I am a brilliant poet!” Apparently, Zhenya still can’t forgive...
Which husband did she love more? Galya and I talked about Misha Lukonin, and I assured her: “If you stayed with him, you would be happy!” She always spoke with delight about Lukonin. But did she love him? The gypsy told her that she would live in abundance, but would never love. She married Yevtushenko in a black dress with a pink bow.
Galina was burdened by the fact that, having been married for seven years, she could not give birth.
“He and Zhenya took Petya when he was very young,” recalls Shmelkova. - It was intended for Bella Akhmadulina, Yevtushenko’s first wife. But she chose a girl. Galina Volchek persuaded him to take Petya, and she became his godmother. The boy - a cherub with blue eyes and curls - looked like Yevtushenko himself. Petya grew up as a happy child. Sports boy: swam, dived, ski jumped. He studied at the school at the Tretyakov Gallery.

The adopted son looked like YEVTUSHENKO
Suffered from hazing
The marriage of Galina and Evgeniy broke up at the insistence of Galya, tired of the poet’s numerous novels.
“After the divorce, she and Zhenya shared for a long time numerous paintings that were donated by artist friends,” says Shmelkova. - But they remained friends. Galya never remarried. Yevtushenko married twice more. Petya always considered Evgeny his dad. Yevtushenko came to the guy’s birthdays and invited him to visit him at his dacha.
After graduating from the Moscow Art Lyceum, Pyotr Yevtushenko was drafted into the army. The service left an indelible mark on his biography. Subsequently, he will write a series of paintings “A Soldier's Diary”.
“Yevtushenko could have made sure that Petya was not drafted into the army,” Shmelkova believes. - But I didn’t bother. Naive and handsome young men like Petya are bullied in the army. We could only guess what happened there, because Petya carried everything inside himself. Galya said that it was after the army that he developed mental problems... I didn’t see a single regular girl with Petya, although he paid attention to the female gender. I remember once we came to the museum. He liked the charming girl guide. So Petya and I licked her legs and skirt all the way.
After returning from the army, the father enrolled his son in an American college near New York. But, as the young artist himself admitted, he was soon expelled due to absences and partying. Petya returned to his homeland under his mother’s wing.

The poet's second wife Galina SOKOL-LUKONINA (YEVTUSHENKO) was unable to give birth to a child
Didn't want to share the inheritance
In recent years, Peter lived alone. His mother bought him an apartment in the Yasenevo district. Then she bought him a house on Kurina Street. He lived modestly: in the room there was only the most necessary things. His nanny Shura came to clean up for the poet’s son. Although Peter did not become a famous artist, one exhibition of his works, thanks to Shmelkova, did take place.
“On the advertising poster we placed a picture of a poodle wearing earflaps near the Kremlin wall,” recalls Natalya Alexandrovna. - Petya drew his dog Pele, named after the great Brazilian football player. When I played the piano, Pele howled, and as soon as I took a bad passage, he hit the keys with his paw.
Peter did not get along very well with his mother, but her death two years ago was a strong blow for the lonely and unsuccessful artist.
“I haven’t seen Galya for the last four years,” says Shmelkova. - At the same time, she called five times a day: either to discuss a book, or something else. I offered to meet, but she kept postponing the meeting with one word: “Later.” I think she didn’t want me to see her growing old. I regret that I didn’t come to her funeral because I couldn’t get out of bed. Yevtushenko didn’t come either, but wrote in the newspaper about her death: “Petya, don’t forget that you have a father and from the depths of the grave your mother’s eyes are looking at you”... Galya dreamed that I would take her son under my wing. But I understood that there would be an inheritance and I would have to go to court.


Petya was buried at the Vagankovskoye cemetery next to his mother and grandmother
In recent years he has been drinking. He loved gin, whiskey and other expensive drinks. Once I decided to go on a trip around the world with him, but Petya said: “For this money I will buy so much whiskey that I will dream about this trip.” For the last six months, Petya has been in a psychiatric hospital. I wanted to visit him, but he refused: “I’ll come myself”...
One of Peter’s few friends, artist Konstantin Zvezdochetov, also shared his memories:
- Petya was cremated at the Nikolo-Arkhangelsk cemetery. At the wake they put up a photograph of him, he was 17 years old. About ten people came to say goodbye. Among them is the wife of the son of the writer Konstantin Simonov, Galina... I looked after him because my mother was friends with Elena, Evgeniy Alexandrovich’s sister. He was lonely, and it seemed to me that he didn’t need anyone. There is some kind of fate here: the son of director Georgy Danelia passed away tragically, the composer Nikita Bogoslovsky’s Kirill died from heavy drinking, and now Yevtushenko’s son too. Imagine a boy whose mother was friends with Academician Sakharov’s second wife, dissident Elena Bonner. One time Galina practically accomplished a feat: when the writer Viktor Nekrasov went abroad, she was the only one with Pavel Lungin who went to see him off. Yevtushenko helped Petya all his life, even when Yevgeny Alexandrovich’s leg was amputated...
Yes, fate tossed the guy from side to side. From an orphanage he ended up in a bohemian family, then - harsh morals in the army, after life among complete strangers, dad did not take his son to live with him in America. Although Petya didn’t want to go there, because he didn’t like it there. A monument should be erected to Yevtushenko’s sister Elena Maksimovna. When Petya became especially difficult and offended her, she still helped him. She carried huge packages to the hospital.


Shmelkova shows a poster with a reproduction of Peter’s painting - “Pele the Poodle on Red Square”
“He portrayed himself as a poodle”
“Petya was a talented artist,” says Evgeny Yevtushenko. - There are three large paintings of his in my museum. I especially love my son’s self-portrait: he painted himself in the image of a lonely dog ​​wearing earflaps.
- Evgeniy Alexandrovich, my friends told me that Petya got sick after the army...
- My son went to serve, like everyone else. He took a sip of hazing there, of course. Young people can be cruel, and the children of famous people come under attack. It seems to others that they are freed from many problems. Believe me, the children of famous people are not the happiest. By the way, Petya never used my name. And I never helped Petya just because he is just my son. But he contributed as an artist. The son, although adopted, is the first.
- Did you decide to take the boy from the orphanage?
- Not so much me, but my second wife Galina. Her childhood was difficult: she was brought up in an orphanage, where there were children of “enemies of the people.” It affected her, her views.
- Why wasn't he married?
- A personal tragedy occurred in the USA, where Peter, having received a grant, went to study. He fell in love with a girl on the course and decided to draw her portrait. When he finished work, it was night, but Petya decided to call her and asked her to come to evaluate the portrait. She misunderstood this act. As a result, my son was expelled from college. It was this story with the girl that became the beginning of his illness.
I paid less attention to my son than my mother. But everyone helped him as best they could... He had been taking so many medications lately that he couldn’t even drink strong tea. My heart couldn't stand it. I'm very worried. My sister was waiting for my arrival from America and did not interred her ashes so that I could say goodbye to my son. Petya was buried at the Vagankovskoye cemetery, where his mother also rests.
Reference
Yevtushenko's first wife in 1954 was the poetess Bella Akhmadulina.
In 1962, Evgeniy Alexandrovich married Bella’s friend, Galina Sokol-Lukonina. Seven years later they adopted a boy, Petya.
In 1978, the poet married his Irish fan, Jen Butler, with whom he had sons Alexander and Anton
Yevtushenko’s fourth wife in 1987 was Maria Novikova, with whom he had two sons - Evgeny and Dmitry.
And there was another case
“In the film “Stalin’s Funeral,” I was lucky enough to meet the brilliant poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko, who was the director and screenwriter here,” said actress Inna Vykhodtseva. - We voiced the mass scenes of the leader’s funeral at the Mosfilm film studio. The recording did not work out for a long time, and then Evgeniy Alexandrovich asked the administrator to bring a box of vodka, several loaves of sausage and bread. At first we didn’t understand: why so much food? They thought they would feed us during the break. They poured us half a glass of vodka, and the director commanded: “Drink, and then we’ll work!” Since I don’t drink vodka, I poured myself some water. But Yevtushenko noticed that I didn’t drink in one gulp and asked: “Why don’t you drink?” I had to play. I remember that for one shift we were paid as if for two: he was so pleased with the work.

Evgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko(surname at birth - Gangnus, July 18, 1932 [according to passport - 1933], Winter; according to other sources - Nizhneudinsk, Irkutsk region - April 1, 2017, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA) - Soviet and Russian poet. He also gained fame as a prose writer, director, screenwriter, publicist, speaker and actor. Member of the USSR Writers' Union. Was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Biography and essay on creativity

Born on July 18, 1932 in the family of amateur poet Alexander Rudolfovich Gangnus (Baltic German by origin; 1910-1976) and Zinaida Ermolaevna Yevtushenko (1910-2002), geologist, actress, Honored Cultural Worker of the RSFSR. Grandson of the teacher-mathematician Rudolf Gangnus and Ermolai Naumovich Yevtushenko (born 1883, the village of Khimichi, Azari Volost, Bobruisk district, Minsk province; Belarusian, member of the CPSU (b) since 1917, higher education, commanded artillery in the Volga and Moscow military districts, was Deputy Chief of Artillery of the Red Army, inspector of the Artillery Directorate of the Red Army, brigintendant. Arrested on 02/17/1938. Rehabilitated by the USSR Military Command on 08/25/1938 for participation in a terrorist organization.

In 1944, upon returning from evacuation from the Zima station to Moscow, the poet’s mother changed her son’s surname to her maiden name (about this in the poem “Mom and the Neutron Bomb”) - when preparing the documents for changing the surname, a mistake was deliberately made in the date of birth: They wrote down 1933 so as not to receive a pass, which they were required to have at the age of 12.

He studied at Moscow schools No. 254 and No. 607; at school he had bad grades. He studied at the poetry studio at the regional House of Pioneers in Moscow.

In 1948, he was unfairly suspected at school No. 607 of setting fire to school grade books, so at the age of 15 he was expelled from school. Since he was not accepted anywhere after that, his father sent him with a letter of recommendation to a geological exploration expedition to Kazakhstan, where he had 15 unconvoyed criminals under his command. Then he worked in Altai.

He began publishing in 1949, his first poem was published in the newspaper “Soviet Sport”.

From 1952 to 1957 he studied at the Literary Institute. A. M. Gorky. Expelled for “disciplinary sanctions”, as well as for supporting Vladimir Dudintsev’s novel “Not by Bread Alone.”

In 1952, the first book of poems, “Scouts of the Future,” was published; the author subsequently assessed it as youthful and immature.

In 1952, he became the youngest member of the USSR Writers' Union, bypassing the stage of candidate member of the joint venture.

“I was accepted into the Literary Institute without a matriculation certificate and almost simultaneously into the Writers' Union, in both cases considering my book to be sufficient grounds. But I knew her worth. And I wanted to write differently."

- Yevtushenko, "Premature Autobiography".

At the same time, he was appointed secretary of the Komsomol organization at the Writers' Union.

The period from 1950 to 1980 was a time of poetic boom, when B. Akhmadulina, A. Voznesensky, B. Okudzhava, R. Rozhdestvensky, E. Yevtushenko entered the arena of enormous popularity. They infected the whole country with enthusiasm, striking it with their freshness, independence, and informality of creativity. The performances of these authors attracted huge stadiums, and the poetry of the Thaw period soon began to be called pop poetry.

In subsequent years, Yevtushenko published several collections that gained great popularity (“The Third Snow” (1955), “Highway of Enthusiasts” (1956), “Promise” (1957), “Poems of Different Years” (1959), “Apple” (1960 ), “Tenderness” (1962), “Wave of the Hand” (1962)).

One of the symbols of the thaw were the evenings in the Great Auditorium of the Polytechnic Museum, in which Yevtushenko took part, along with Robert Rozhdestvensky, Bella Akhmadulina, Bulat Okudzhava and other poets of the wave of the 1960s.

His works are distinguished by a wide range of moods and genre diversity. The first lines from the pathetic introduction to the poem “Bratsk Hydroelectric Power Station” (1965): “A poet in Russia is more than a poet” - a manifesto of Yevtushenko’s own creativity and a catchphrase that has steadily come into use. The poet is no stranger to subtle and intimate lyrics: the poem “A dog used to sleep at my feet” (1955). In the poem “Northern Surcharge” (1977) he composes a real ode to beer. Several poems and cycles of poems are devoted to foreign and anti-war themes: “Under the Skin of the Statue of Liberty”, “Bullfight”, “Italian Cycle”, “Dove in Santiago”, “Mom and the Neutron Bomb”.

Yevtushenko’s extreme success was facilitated by the simplicity and accessibility of his poems, as well as by the scandals that often arose from criticism around his name. Counting on the journalistic effect, Yevtushenko either chose topics of current party politics for his poems (for example, “Stalin’s Heirs” (Pravda, October 21, 1962) or “Bratsk Hydroelectric Power Station” (1965)), or addressed them to a critically minded public (for example. , “Babi Yar” (1961) or “The Ballad of Poaching” (1965)).<…>His poems are mostly narrative and rich in figurative details. Many are long-winded, declamatory and superficial. His poetic talent rarely manifests itself in deep and meaningful statements. He writes easily, loves the play of words and sounds, which often, however, reaches the point of pretentiousness. Yevtushenko’s ambitious desire to become, continuing the tradition of V. Mayakovsky, a tribune of the post-Stalin period led to the fact that his talent - as clearly manifested, for example, in the poem “For the Berries” - seemed to be weakening.

Wolfgang Kazak

Yevtushenko's stage performances have become famous: he successfully reads his own works. He has released several discs and audiobooks in his own performance: “Berry Places”, “Dove in Santiago” and others.

From 1986 to 1991 he was Secretary of the Board of the Union of Writers of the USSR. Since December 1991 - Secretary of the Board of the Commonwealth of Writers' Unions. Since 1989 - co-chairman of the April writers' association. Since 1988 - member of the Memorial Society.

On May 14, 1989, with a huge margin, having received 19 times more votes than the nearest candidate, he was elected as a people's deputy of the USSR from the Dzerzhinsky territorial electoral district of the city of Kharkov and remained so until the end of the existence of the USSR.

In 1991, having signed a contract with an American university in Tulsa, Oklahoma, he left with his family to teach in the USA, where he lived permanently, sometimes coming to Russia.

In 2007, the Olimpiysky sports complex hosted the premiere of the rock opera “The White Snows Are Coming,” based on the poems of Yevgeny Yevtushenko by composer Gleb May.

Last years and death

On March 12, 2017, Yevtushenko was hospitalized in serious condition in the United States. He had cancer in the last fourth stage, which had returned after surgical removal of a kidney about six years ago. According to Mikhail Morgulis, Yevtushenko remained conscious until the very end. Yevgeny Yevtushenko died on April 1, 2017 in his sleep from cardiac arrest, surrounded by his family at Hillcrest Medical Center in Tulsa (Oklahoma, USA). Russian President Vladimir Putin and Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin expressed their condolences.

On April 10, the poet’s funeral service was held in the Church of the Holy Blessed Prince Igor of Chernigov in the village of Peredelkino; The funeral service was performed by Archpriest Vladimir Vigilyansky.

On April 11, a farewell ceremony for Yevtushenko took place at the Central House of Writers; later that day, in accordance with his last will, he was buried at the Peredelkinskoye cemetery next to Boris Pasternak.

Criticism

Yevtushenko's literary style and manner provided a wide field for criticism. He was often reproached for pretentious rhetoric and hidden self-praise. Thus, in an interview from 1972, published in October 2013, Nobel Prize laureate Joseph Brodsky spoke extremely negatively about Yevtushenko as a poet and person:

Yevtushenko? You know - it's not that simple. He is, of course, a very bad poet. And he is an even worse person. This is such a huge factory for reproducing itself. By self-reproduction. ... He has poems that, in general, you can even remember, love, you can like them. I just don’t like the general level of this whole thing.

civil position

Yevtushenko's first collection of poems included poems glorifying Stalin. One chapter of the poem “Kazan University” is dedicated to V.I. Lenin and was written just in time for Lenin’s 100th anniversary. According to the poet himself, all this (as well as his other sincere propaganda poems of the Soviet era: “Party Cards”, “Communards will not be slaves”, etc.) is a consequence of the influence of propaganda. Andrei Tarkovsky, having read “Kazan University” by Yevtushenko, wrote in his diaries: “I read it by accident... What mediocrity! Takes aback. Meshchansky Avangard<…>What a pathetic Zhenya. Yoke<…>In his apartment, all the walls are covered with bad paintings. Bourgeois. And he really wants to be loved. And Khrushchev, and Brezhnev, and the girls...” Yevtushenko’s early poems are characterized by optimism and faith in a bright communist future, characteristic of the generation of the “sixties”. So, in one of his works he wrote:

If we want to build communism,
No talkers are required in the stands.
Communism for me is the highest intimacy,
but they don’t talk about the most intimate things.

In 1962, the Pravda newspaper published the widely known poem “Stalin’s Heirs,” timed to coincide with the removal of Stalin’s body from the Mausoleum. His other works also caused great resonance: “Babi Yar” (1961), “Letter to Yesenin” (1965), “Tanks are moving through Prague” (1968). The last poem was written on August 23, 1968, two days after the entry of Warsaw Pact troops into Czechoslovakia. Despite such an open challenge to the then authorities, the poet continued to publish and travel throughout the country and abroad.

Impressed by the 1973 military coup in Chile and the death of President Salvador Allende, whom he personally met, Yevtushenko wrote the poem “Dove in Santiago.” After the fall of Pinochet's dictatorial regime, in 2009, President Michelle Bachelet awarded Yevtushenko Chile's highest honor for foreigners, the Order of Bernardo O'Higgins, after which he read his poem to a crowd of thousands from the balcony of the La Moneda presidential palace in Santiago.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko was published in the magazines Yunost (also on the editorial board of this magazine), Novy Mir, and Znamya, which were reputed to be oppositional in Soviet times. His speeches in support of Soviet dissidents Brodsky, Solzhenitsyn, and Daniel became famous. Despite this, Joseph Brodsky did not like Yevtushenko (according to Sergei Dovlatov, his catchphrase is known “If Yevtushenko is against collective farms, then I am for it”) and sharply criticized Yevtushenko's election as an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1987. However, according to the memoirs of M.I. Weller, this did not stop Brodsky from asking Yevtushenko for help in difficult life moments, and Yevtushenko never refused him.

In 1990, he became co-chairman of the All-Union Association of Writers in Support of Perestroika “April”.

After the reaction of some Russians to the terrorist attacks in London, expressed in schadenfreude, covered with some sympathy, in 2005 Yevtushenko wrote the poem “Serves them right!”, in which he noted that joy in other people’s misfortunes is a legacy of Stalin’s and Gulag’s radiation, but “the stations of London metro -/relatives of Beslan,” and since “Homelands may be different,/but during war and terror/can’t we be united/by a common homeland—woe?”

In February 2014, Yevtushenko addressed the people of Ukraine with words of support and the poem “State, be a man!”, written on the night of February 18-19, at the height of clashes between protesters and police during the Euromaidan. Noting that “invisible on the Maidan / together - Pushkin, Bryullov, we stand,” Yevtushenko spoke out against political hostility and in support of convergence, expressing the hope that “we will succeed in becoming all of Europe.”

Personal life

Yevgeny Yevtushenko was officially married four times. His wives:

• Isabella (Bella) Akhatovna Akhmadulina, poetess (married since 1957);

• Galina Semyonovna Sokol-Lukonina (married since 1961),
  • son Peter;
• Jan Butler, Irish, his passionate fan (married since 1978),
  • sons:

• Alexander,
• Anton;

• Maria Vladimirovna Novikova (born 1962), married since 1987,
  • sons:

• Eugene,
• Dmitriy.

Data

• In 1963 he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
• American columnist Robert Shelton, in the October 28, 1963 issue of the New York Times, compares the young Bob Dylan with Yevtushenko: “...perhaps an American Yevtushenko (the Russian poet).”
• In 1967, Yevgeny Yevtushenko semi-legally visited Portugal, with which the Soviet Union did not maintain any relations under the Salazar regime. The one-day visit was organized by the publisher Snu Abekassish, who for this reason had serious problems with PIDE. Impressed by what he saw, Yevtushenko wrote the poem “Love in Portuguese.”
• Some sources attribute to P. A. Sudoplatov the statement that Yevtushenko collaborated with the KGB, playing the role of an “agent of influence.” However, in the memoirs of Sudoplatov himself, this is described as a recommendation from Sudoplatov’s wife, a former intelligence officer, to KGB officers who turned to her for advice regarding Yevtushenko: “to establish friendly confidential contacts with him, under no circumstances recruit him as an informant.” Yuri Felshtinsky also states that Yevtushenko collaborated with the KGB, and his supervisor in the KGB was General Pitovranov.
• Yevtushenko opened a museum-gallery in Peredelkino near Moscow, timed to coincide with his birthday on July 18, 2010. The museum presents a personal collection of paintings donated to Yevtushenko by famous artists - Chagall, Picasso. There is a rare painting by Ernst, one of the founders of surrealism. The museum operates in a specially built building next to the poet’s dacha.
• The super microbook with the poem “Volga” has a size of 0.5x0.45 mm and is one of the ten smallest books in the world.
• “Karelian son-in-law” - Yevgeny Yevtushenko acquired this nickname after marrying Petrozavodsk medical student Masha. Currently, Maria Vladimirovna Yevtushenko is already a two-time graduate of PetrSU (medical and philological faculties) and the mother of two sons of the famous poet.
• Yevtushenko called “The Dove in Santiago” the favorite poem he wrote, which, according to his own statement, saved more than three hundred people in different countries from suicide.

Bibliography

Poems

• "Station Winter" (1953-1956)
• "Babi Yar" (1961)
• "Bratsk Hydroelectric Power Station" (1965)
• "Pushkin Pass" (1965)
• "Bullfight" (1967)
• "Under the Skin of the Statue of Liberty" (1968)
• "Kazan University" (1970)
• "Where are you from?" (1971)
• "Snow in Tokyo" (1974)
• "Ivanovo Calico" (1976)
• "Northern Surcharge" (1977)
• "Dove in Santiago" (1974-1978)
• "Non-pryadva" (1980)
• "Mom and the Neutron Bomb" (1982)
• "Distant Relative" (1984)
• "Fuku!" (1985)
• "Thirteen" (1996)
• "Full Length" (1969-2000)
• "Glade" (1975-2000)
• "Dora Franco" (2011)

Poetry

• Ballad of the Swallow (1976)
• A ballad about the chief of gendarmes and about Lermontov’s poem “On the Death of a Poet”
• White nights in Arkhangelsk (1964)
• Gratitude (1968)
• I'm afraid I can't handle my face (2004)
• In the Store (1956)
• In the Church of Coxueta (1958)
• Wagon (1952)
• Waltz on Deck (1957)
• Volga (1958)
• Where is the way home?
• Depth (1952)
• Citizens, listen to me... (1963)
• God forbid! (1990)
• Two bicycles
• Two Cities (1964)
• Two loves
• Palace (1952)
• Long Screams (1963)
• To Women (1961)
• Life and death
• Envy (1955)
• The Spell (1960)
• Anger (1955)
• Emeralds (2004)
• Execution of Stenka Razin (1964)
• Dwarf Birches (1966)
• Picture of Childhood (1963)
• Career (1957)
• Record Kiosk (~1981)
• Whale Graveyard (1967)
• When a Man Is Forty (1972)
• When Lorca Was Killed (1967)
• Bluebell (1992)
• Tips of Hair (1972)
• Extra Miracle (1965)
• Best of a Generation (1957)
• Darling, sleep! (1964)
• Love in Portuguese (1967)
• Mother (1969)
• Masha (1958)
• To My Dog (1958)
• My Dog (1958)
• Prayer (1996)
• Prayer Before a Poem (1964)
• Monologue of a former priest who became a boatswain on the Lena (1967)
• Monologue of the Blue Fox (1967)
• Monologue from the drama “Van Gogh” (1957)
• Sea (1952)
• Men don't give themselves to women (2004)
• Pangs of Conscience (1966)
• On a Bicycle (1955)
• What Life Takes (1996)
• Nastya Karpova (1960)
• Don't Be Proud (1970)
• Don't Fade Away (1977)
• Don't (1978)
• Tenderness (1955)
• unrequited love
• No Years (1992)
• On Translations (1959)
• About creativity
• Fence (1961)
• Loneliness (1959)
• One Friend (1974)
• Waiting (1951)
• Alder Earring (1975)
• In Memory of Akhmatova (1966)
• In Memory of Yesenin (1965)
• Park (1955)
• Partisan Graves (1957)
• Sails (1969)
• Patriarch's Ponds (1957)
• Singer (1951)
• Letter to Paris (1965)
• According to Pechora (1963)
• By the Berry (1955)
• Wounded Man (1963)
• Half Things (1989)
• The Last Mammoth (1956)
• last try
• Loss (March 13, 1991)
• Poet (1965)
• Prologue (1955)
• Procession with Madonna (1965)
• Pskov Towers (1971)
• Old Men's Revue (1967)
• Rhythms of Rome (1965)
• Weddings (1955)
• The Tale of a Russian Toy (1963)
• People Laughed Behind the Wall (1963)
• Companion (1954)
• Old Friend (1973)
• Knock on the Door (1959)
• The Troubadour Mystery (1977)
• Adolescent secrets melt away like fogs on the banks (1960)
• Your Soul (1956)
• Third Snow (1953)
• Three Figures (1995)
• By the Roman Forgotten Road (1967)
• Mothers Leave (1960)
• Front-line soldier (1955)
• Flowers Are Better Than Bullets (1970)
• A Man Was Killed (1957)
• Black Banderillas (1967)
• Playful (1963)
• I would like... (1972)
• Fair in Simbirsk (1964)
• The Clear, Quiet Power of Love (1973)

Collections of poems

• "Scouts of the future." - M.: Soviet writer, 1952
• "The Third Snow" - M., 1955
• "Highway of Enthusiasts". - M., 1956
• "Promise". - M.: Soviet writer, 1957
• "Bow and Lyre." - Tbilisi, 1959
• "Poems from different years." - M.: Young Guard, 1959
• "Apple". - M.: Soviet writer, 1960
• "Wave of the hand." - M.: Young Guard, 1962, 352 pp., 100,000 copies.
• "Tenderness". - M.: Soviet writer, 1962, 192 pp., 100,000 copies.
• "Bratskaya HPP". - Chicago, 1965
• "Communication boat." - M.: Young Guard, 1966
• "Pitching". - London, 1966
• “This is what’s happening to me”. - M.: Pravda, 1966
• “Poems and poem “Bratsk Hydroelectric Power Station”.” - M.: Soviet writer, 1967
• "Poetry". - M.: Fiction, 1967
• "White snow is falling." - M.: Fiction, 1969
• “I am of Siberian breed.” - Irkutsk, 1971
• "Kazan University". - Kazan, 1971
• "Singing Dam". - M.: Soviet writer, 1972
• "Road No. 1". - M.: Sovremennik, 1972
• "Intimate lyrics." - M.: Young Guard, 1973. - 192 pp., 75,000 copies.
• “A poet in Russia is more than a poet”. - M.: Soviet Russia, 1973
• "Father's Hearing" - M.: Soviet writer, 1975, 1978
• "Thank you". - M.: Pravda, 1976
• "Full growth." - M.: Sovremennik, 1977
• "Glade." - M.: Children's literature, 1977
• "Morning People" - M.: Young Guard, 1978
• "Oath to space." - Irkutsk, 1978
• Heavier than the earth. - Tbilisi, 1979
• "Explosive Welding" - M.: Moscow worker, 1980
• "Compromise Compromisovich." - M.: Pravda, 1978; 48 pp., 75,000 copies.
• "Poetry". - M., 1981
• "Two pairs of skis." - M.: Sovremennik, 1982
• "'Mother and the Neutron Bomb' and other poems." - M., 1983, 1986
• "Where I'm from." - L.: Children's literature, 1983
• "Almost at last." - M.: Young Guard, 1985
• “Half a glass of grass.” - M.: Pravda, 1986
• "Tomorrow's Wind" - 1987
• "Poetry". - M., 1987
• "Last try". - Petrozavodsk, 1988
• "1989"
• "Citizens, listen to me." - M.: Fiction, 1989
• “Darling, sleep.” - M.: JV “All Moscow”, 1989; 206 pp., 25,000 copies.
• "Green Gate". - Tbilisi, 1990
• "Last try". - M.: Soviet Russia, 1990
• "Belarusian blood". - Minsk, 1990
• "Poems and Poems". - M., 1990
• “No years: love lyrics.” - St. Petersburg, 1993
• "My golden mystery." - Irkutsk, 1994
• “My very best.” - M.: H. G. S., 1995
• "Last Tears" - M.: Terra, 1995
• "Slow Love" - M.: Eksmo, 1997
• "Tumbler." - 1997
• "Stolen Apples" - 1999
• “I will break through into the 21st century...” - 2001
• “The window looks out onto white trees.” - 2007
• "Russian anthem"
• "Poems of the XXI century". - M.: Eksmo, 2008, 352 pp., 3000 copies.
• "My Football Games" (1969-2009)
• “It can still be saved.” - 2011
• "Happiness and retribution." - 2012
• “I don’t know how to say goodbye.” - 2013

Novels

• "Berry places" - M., 1982
• "Don't die before you die." - M.: Moscow worker, 1993
• "Bering Tunnel"

Stories

• Pearl Harbor (We Try Harder) (1967)
• "Ardabiola" (1981)

Journalism

• “Notes to an Autobiography” (circa 1970) - manuscript, circulated in samizdat.
• “Talent is a miracle that is not accidental.” - M.: Soviet writer, 1980 (book of critical articles)
• "War is anti-culture." - M., 1983
• "Tomorrow's Wind" - M.: Pravda, 1987. - 480 p.; ill.; 300,000 copies
• "Politics is everyone's privilege." Book of journalism. - M.: APN, 1990. - 624 p.; ill., 200,000 copies. X
• “Abyss in 2 leaps?” - Kharkov: Prapor, 1990

Memoirs

• "Wolf Passport" - M.: Vagrius, 1998. - 576 pp., 15,000 copies. (series “My 20th Century”)
• "Six-paratrooper": Memoir prose. - M.: AST; Zebra, 2006. ;;;
• “I have come to you, Babi Yar...” - M.: Text, 2012-142 p.

Collected works

• Selected works in 2 volumes. - M.: Fiction, 1975
• Selected works in 2 volumes. - M.: Fiction, 1980
• Collected works in 3 volumes. - M.: Fiction, 1983-1984., 75,000 copies.
• Poems and poems in 3 volumes. - M.: Soviet Russia, 1987, 55,000 copies.
• The first collected works in 8 volumes. - M.: AST Publishing House, 2002, 3000 copies.

Anthologies

• “Strophes of the Century” (1993 - in English, USA; 1995 - Russian edition) - an anthology of Russian poetry of the 20th century (compiled)

In English

• poem "Zima Station" in English
• Selected Works in English I
• Selected Works in English II

Collaboration with musicians

Discography

• 1973 - “Citizens, listen to me” (read by the author) (Melodiya company)
• 1977 - “Northern Surcharge” (read by the author) (Melodiya company)
• 1980 - “Dove in Santiago” and other poems (read by the author) (Melodiya company)

Classical music

• Symphony No. 13 in b-moll “Babi Yar” by Dmitri Shostakovich, op. 113 in five movements for bass, bass choir and orchestra. Poems by E. Yevtushenko. Premiere - December 18, 1962, Moscow, Great Hall of the Conservatory. Performed by: V. Gromadsky (bass), State Choir and Choir of the Gnessin Institute, Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra (conductor K. Kondrashin)
• Cantata “The Execution of Stepan Razin” by D. Shostakovich. Poems by Yevtushenko (1965)
• Rock opera “White Snow is Falling...” (2007)

Songs

to music by various composers

• “Still, there is something in our people” (Al. Karelin) - performed by Nat. Moskvina
• “And the snow will fall” (G. Ponomarenko) - Spanish. Klavdiya Shulzhenko
• “And the snow will fall” (D. Tukhmanov) - Spanish. Muslim Magomaev
• “Grandmothers” (Al. Karelin) - Spanish. M. Zadornov and Nat. Moskvina
• “Ballad of Friendship” (E. Krylatov)
• “The Ballad of the Fishing Village of Ayu” (Yu. Saulsky) - Spanish. A. Gradsky
• “Even with every effort” (A. Pugacheva) - Spanish. Alla Pugacheva
• “You will love me” (N. Martynov) - Spanish. Victor Krivonos
• “Eyes of Love” (“There is always a woman’s hand”) (Brandon Stone) - Spanish. Brandon Stone
• “Eyes of Love” (“There is always a woman’s hand”) (Mikael Tariverdiev) - Spanish. Galina Besedina
• "God willing"(Raymond Pauls) - Spanish. A. Malinin
• “Dolphins” (Yu. Saulsky) - Spanish. VIA "Watercolors"
• “Child is a villain” (group “Dialogue”) - Spanish. Kim Breitburg (gr. "Dialogue")
• “Envy” (V. Makhlyankin) - Spanish. Valentin Nikulin
• “Ingratiation” (I. Talkov) - Spanish. Igor Talkov; (group “Dialogue”) - Spanish. Kim Breitburg (gr. "Dialogue")
• “Spell” (I. Luchenok) - Spanish. Victor Vujacic
• “Spell” (E. Horovets) - Spanish. Emil Horovets
• “Will the clover field make noise” (E. Krylatov) - Spanish. Eduard Khil, Lyudmila Gurchenko
• “Like a hollow ear” (V. Makhlyankin) - Spanish. Valentin Nikulin
• “Recording kiosk” (group “Dialogue”) - Spanish. Kim Breitburg (gr. "Dialogue")
• “When the bells ring” (V. Pleshak) - Spanish. Eduard Khil
• "When Your Face Came Up" (Brandon Stone)
• “When a man is forty years old” (I. Nikolaev) - Spanish. Alexander Kalyanov
• “When a person comes to Russia” (Al. Karelin) - Spanish. Nat. Moskvina
• “When a man betrays a man” (E. Krylatov) - Spanish. Gennady Trofimov
• “I understood something in this life” (E. Horovets) - Spanish. Emil Horovets
• “Bell” (Al. Karelin) - Spanish. Nat. Moskvina
• "Wallet" (Brandon Stone)
• “Darling, sleep” (D. Tukhmanov) - Spanish. Valery Obodzinsky, Leonid Berger (VIA “Jolly Fellows”), A. Gradsky
• “Love is a child of the planet” (D. Tukhmanov) - Spanish. VIA "Jolly Guys"
• “There are no uninteresting people in the world” (V. Makhlyankin) - Spanish. Shaft. Nikulin
• “Metamorphoses” (Al. Karelin) - Spanish. M. Zadornov and Nat. Moskvina
• “Our difficult Soviet man” (A. Babajanyan) - Spanish. Georg Ots, Muslim Magomaev
• “No need to be afraid” (E. Krylatov) - Spanish. Gennady Trofimov
• “Don't rush” (A. Babajanyan) - Spanish. Muslim Magomaev, Anna German
• “No years” (Sergei Nikitin)
• “Am I really mortal” (S. Nikitin, P. I. Tchaikovsky)
• “Nobody’s” (Yu. Saulsky) - Spanish. Zaur Tutov, A. Gradsky
• “Russian Songs” (Al. Karelin) - Spanish. Nat. Moskvina
• “My Song” (E. Krylatov) - Spanish. Gene. Trofimov
• “Crying for a brother” (S. Nikitin)
• “Crying for a communal apartment” (Louise Khmelnitskaya) - Spanish. Gelena Velikanova, Joseph Kobzon
• “Under the creaking, weeping willow (“How to make your beloved happy”)” (G. Movsesyan) - Spanish. Georgy Movsesyan, Joseph Kobzon
• “Let me hope” (A. Babajanyan) - Spanish. Vladimir Popkov
• “Confession” (Yu. Saulsky) - Spanish. Sofia Rotaru, Ksenia Georgiadi
• “The Princess and the Pea” (Al. Karelin) - Spanish. Nat. Moskvina
• “A simple song of Bulat” (Al. Karelin) - Spanish. Nat. Moskvina
• “Professor” (group “Dialogue”) - Spanish. Kim Breitburg (gr. "Dialogue")
• “Child” (Al. Karelin) - Spanish. M. Zadornov and Nat. Moskvina
• “Motherland” (B. Terentyev) - Spanish. VIA "Blue Bird"
• “Spring” (Al. Karelin) - Spanish. Nat. Moskvina
• “Romance” (E. Horovets) - Spanish. Emil Horovets
• “The fresh smell of linden trees” (I. Nikolaev) - Spanish. A. Kalyanov
• “Save and preserve” (E. Krylatov) - Spanish. Valentina Tolkunova
• “Old Friend” (I. Nikolaev) - Spanish. A. Kalyanov
• “Your traces” (Arno Babajanyan) - Spanish. People Zykina, Sofia Rotaru
• “Til” (A. Petrov) - Spanish. Ed. Gil
• “You are leaving like a train” (M. Tariverdiev) - Spanish. VIA "Singing Guitars"
• “By the Sea” (B. Emelyanov) - Spanish. Vakhtang Kikabidze
• “My beloved is leaving” (V. Makhlyankin) - Spanish. Shaft. Nikulin
• “The Church must be prayed for” (Al. Karelin) - Spanish. Nat. Moskvina
• “Ferris Wheel” (Arno Babajanyan) - Spanish. Muslim Magomaev
• “What does love know about love” (A. Eshpai) - Spanish. Lyudmila Gurchenko
• “I am a citizen of the Soviet Union” (D. Tukhmanov) - Spanish. Muslim Magomaev
• “I love you more than nature” (R. Pauls) - Spanish. Irina Dubtsova
• “I stopped loving you” (V. Makhlyankin) - Spanish. Shaft. Nikulin
• “I want to bring it” (E. Krylatov) - Spanish. Gennady Trofimov

to music by Eduard Kolmanovsky

• “The river runs” - Spanish. People Zykina, Lyudmila Senchina, Maria Pakhomenko
• “Waltz about Waltz” - Spanish. Klavdiya Shulzhenko, Maya Kristalinskaya, Georg Ots
• “Long farewell” - Spanish. Lev Leshchenko
• “White snow is falling” - Spanish. Gelena Velikanova, V. Troshin, Joseph Kobzon
• “Sooner or later” - Spanish. V. Troshin
• “My Motherland” - Spanish. People Zykina
• "Ancient Tango" - Spanish. Vit. Markov, Joseph Kobzon
• “Comrade Guitar” - Spanish. Klavdiya Shulzhenko
• “Killers walk the earth” - Spanish. Arthur Eisen, Mark Bernes, Alexandrov Ensemble
• “Do Russians want war?” (dedicated to Mark Bernes) - Spanish. Yuri Gulyaev, Mark Bernes, Vad. Ruslanov, Georg Ots, Arthur Eisen

Cinema

In cinema, E. Yevtushenko is known as an actor, stage director, screenwriter, and also as a songwriter.

Filmography

Actor

• 1965 - “Ilyich’s Outpost” (Yevtushenko appears in a documentary insert about a poetry evening at the Polytechnic Museum)
• 1967 - “I am curious - a film in yellow” - speaks at a poetry evening in Sweden
• 1979 - “Take Off” - K. E. Tsiolkovsky
• 1983 - “Kindergarten” - chess player
• 1990 - “Stalin’s Funeral” - sculptor

Director

• 1983 - “Kindergarten”
• 1990 - “Stalin’s Funeral”

Screenwriter

• 1964 - “I am Cuba” (with Enrique Pineda Barnet)
• 1990 - “Stalin’s Funeral”

Songs

• 1961 - “Career of Dima Gorin.” Song "Snow is falling"(Andrey Eshpai) - Spanish. Maya Kristalinskaya. The song was also performed by Zhanna Aguzarova and Anzhelika Varum.
• 1975 - “The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath!”, directed by Eldar Ryazanov. Song “This is what’s happening to me...”(Mikael Tariverdiev - performed by S. Nikitin)
• 1977 - “Office Romance”, director Eldar Ryazanov. The song “We are chatting in crowded trams...” Andrei Petrov
• 1977-1978 - songs from the series “And It’s All About Him” (based on the novel by Vil Lipatov). Music by E. Krylatov:
  • “Alder earring” - Spanish. Gennady Trofimov, Eduard Khil, Joseph Kobzon
  • “No need to be afraid” - Spanish. A. Kavalerov
  • "Steps" - Spanish. Gene. Trofimov
• 1981 - “There are “night witches” in the sky.” Song “When you sing songs on Earth...”(E. Krylatov) - Spanish Elena Kamburova

Evgeniy Aleksandrovich (surname at birth - Gangnus; July 18, 1932, RSFSR - April 1, 2017, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA) - poet, novelist, director, screenwriter, publicist.

Biography

Born into the family of geologist and amateur poet Alexander Rudolfovich Gangnus (Baltic German by origin) (1910-1976). In 1944, upon returning from evacuation from the station to Moscow, the poet’s mother, Zinaida Ermolaevna Yevtushenko (1910-2002), geologist, actress, Honored Cultural Worker of the RSFSR, changed her son’s surname to her maiden name (about this in the poem “Mom and the Neutron Bomb”) "), - when filling out the documents to change the surname, a mistake was deliberately made in the date of birth: they wrote down 1933 so as not to receive a pass, which they were supposed to have at the age of 12. He began publishing in 1949, his first poem was published in the newspaper “Soviet Sport”. From 1952 to 1957 he studied at the Literary Institute. M. Gorky. Expelled for “disciplinary sanctions”, as well as for supporting Dudintsev’s novel “Not by Bread Alone.” In 1952, the first book of poems, “Scouts of the Future,” was published; the author subsequently assessed it as youthful and immature. In 1952 he became the youngest member of the Union of Writers of the USSR, bypassing the stage of candidate member of the joint venture.

“I was accepted into the Literary Institute without a matriculation certificate and almost simultaneously into the Writers' Union, in both cases considering my book to be sufficient grounds. But I knew her worth. And I wanted to write differently." (E. Yevtushenko, “Premature autobiography”).

In subsequent years, he published several collections that became very popular (“The Third Snow” (1955), “Highway of Enthusiasts” (1956), “Promise” (1957), “Poems of Different Years” (1959), “Apple” (1960) , “Tenderness” (1962), “Wave of the Hand” (1962)).

The appearance of the young poet on the literary scene coincided with the Khrushchev thaw and the partial liberalization of Soviet society. Yevtushenko’s fresh and bright poems resonated with the positive sentiments of young people.

One of the symbols of the thaw were the evenings in the Great Auditorium of the Polytechnic Museum, in which Yevtushenko also took part, along with Robert Rozhdestvensky, Bella Akhmadulina, Bulat Okudzhava and other poets of the wave of the 1960s. At poetry evenings at the Polytechnic, three authors were treated differently: Yevtushenko, Voznesensky, and Akhmadulina.

One of E. Yevtushenko’s first public speeches before a large audience took place at the Kharkov Central Lecture Hall in 1961. The organizer of this speech was the Kharkov literary critic L. Ya. Livshits.

His works are distinguished by a wide range of moods and genre diversity. The first lines from the pathetic introduction to the poem “Bratsk Hydroelectric Power Station” (1965): “A poet in Russia is more than a poet,” is a manifesto of Yevtushenko’s own creativity and a catchphrase that has steadily come into use. The poet is no stranger to subtle and intimate lyrics: the poem “A dog used to sleep at my feet” (1955). In the poem “Northern Surcharge” (1977), he composes a real ode to beer - the favorite folk drink, which was then so lacking in the Far North. The poet touches on a variety of topics, including overtly political ones.

Yevtushenko traveled throughout the Soviet Union and the entire globe in search of his themes and heroes. He also writes about working people - hunters, builders, geologists... (“Northern Surcharge”, “Communication Boat”). Several poems and cycles of poems are devoted to foreign and anti-war themes: “Under the Skin of the Statue of Liberty”, “Bullfight”, “Italian Cycle”, “Dove in Santiago”, “Mom and the Neutron Bomb”.

“Yevtushenko’s extreme success was facilitated by the simplicity and accessibility of his poems, as well as the scandals that often arose from criticism around his name. Counting on the journalistic effect, Yevtushenko alternately chose topics of current party politics for his poems (for example, “Stalin’s Heirs,” “Truth,” 1962, 21.10. or “Bratskaya GES”, 1965), then addressed them to a critical public (for example, “Babi Yar”, 1961, or “The Ballad of Poaching”, 1965). Many suffer from lengthiness, are declamatory and superficial. His poetic talent rarely manifests itself in deep and meaningful statements. He writes easily, loves the play of words and sounds, which, however, often reaches the point of pretentiousness. Yevtushenko’s ambitious desire to become, continuing the tradition of V. Mayakovsky, tribune of the post-Stalin period led to the fact that his talent, as clearly manifested, for example, in the poem “For the Berries,” seemed to be weakening.”

Wolfgang Kazak

Yevtushenko's stage performances have become famous: he successfully reads his own works. He has released several discs and audiobooks in his own performance: “Berry Places”, “Dove in Santiago” and others. From 1986 to 1991 he was secretary of the board of the USSR Writers' Union. Since December 1991 - Secretary of the Board of the Commonwealth of Writers' Unions. Since 1989 - co-chairman of the April writers' association. Since 1988 - member of the Memorial Society. On May 14, 1989, with a huge margin, having received 19 times more votes than the nearest candidate, he was elected as a people's deputy of the USSR from the Dzerzhinsky territorial electoral district of the city of Kharkov and remained so until the end of the existence of the USSR. In 1991, having signed a contract with an American university in Tulsa, Oklahoma, he and his family left to teach in the USA. In 2007, the Olimpiysky sports complex hosted the premiere of the rock opera “The White Snows Are Coming,” based on the poems of Yevgeny Yevtushenko by composer Gleb May. Yevtushenko is also known as a director, actor, playwright, and screenwriter. His photographs are known; he exhibited his photo exhibition “Invisible Threads”.

Criticism

Yevtushenko's literary style and manner provided a wide field of activity for criticism. He was often reproached for glorification, pompous rhetoric and hidden self-praise. Thus, literary critic Nikolai Gladkikh wrote about the poem “Fuku!”:

“Self-glorification cannot take the form of calm, self-confident narcissism, nor can it be an expression of an authentic personality. Ambitions are exceptionally great and have long surpassed the scale of talent. The genre turns out to be fiercely polemical in every word, in every statement, and most importantly, the speaker cannot stop for a minute; having entered into a dispute with time and the world, he is forced to continuously manifest.”

civil position

Political opponents and impartial observers noted that the poet knew how to find a common language with the authorities under any regime.

The first collection of poems included the following heartfelt lines about Stalin:

...In the sleepless silence of the night
He thinks about the country, about the world,
He thinks about me.
Goes to the window. Admiring the sun,
He smiles warmly.
And I fall asleep and I dream
The best dream.

One chapter of the poem “Kazan University” is dedicated to V.I. Lenin and was written just in time for Lenin’s 100th anniversary. According to the poet himself, all this (as well as his other sincere propaganda poems of the Soviet era: “Party Cards”, “Communards will not be slaves”, etc.) is a consequence of the influence of propaganda.

In 1962, the Pravda newspaper published the widely known poem “Stalin’s Heirs,” timed to coincide with the removal of Stalin’s body from the mausoleum. His other works also caused great resonance: “Babi Yar” (1961), “Letter to Yesenin” (1965), “Tanks are moving through Prague” (1968). Despite such an open challenge to the then authorities, the poet continued to publish and travel throughout the country and abroad. In 1969 he was awarded the Order of the Badge of Honor.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko is published in the magazines Yunost (he was also on the editorial board of this magazine), Novy Mir, and Znamya, which were reputed to be oppositional in Soviet times.

His speeches in support of Soviet dissidents Brodsky, Solzhenitsyn, and Daniel became famous. Despite this, Joseph Brodsky did not like Yevtushenko (according to Sergei Dovlatov, his catchphrase “If Yevtushenko is against collective farms, then I am for it”) is known and sharply criticized Yevtushenko’s election as an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1987.

In 1990 he became co-chairman of the All-Union Association of Writers in Support of Perestroika “April”.

Personal life

Yevgeny Yevtushenko was officially married 4 times. His wives:

1. Bella Akhmadulina, famous poetess (1954);
2. Galina Sokol-Lukonina (1961), son Peter;
3. Jan Butler, Irish, his passionate admirer (1978), sons Alexander and Anton;
4. Maria Vladimirovna Novikova (1987), sons Evgeny and Dmitry.

In total, Yevtushenko has 5 sons.

1. He spoke English, Spanish, Italian and French.
2. Favorite poet and writer - Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin.
3. American columnist Robert Shelton, in the October 28, 1963 issue of the New York Times, compares the young Bob Dylan with Yevtushenko “... perhaps an American Yevtushenko (the Russian poet).»
4. The poem “Bow Tie,” written in 1976, was dedicated to Yevtushenko’s meeting with Vasily Shukshin at Akhmadulina’s reception: Shukshin, having drunk, caustically remarked: “You grew up in Siberia, at the Zima station, and you wear a bow tie like the last dude.” !”, - to which Yevtushenko retorted: “Are your tarpaulins not foppery?” Yevtushenko agreed to take off his bow tie if Shukshin took off his boots.
5. Some sources, in particular P. A. Sudoplatov, report that E. A. Yevtushenko collaborated with the KGB, playing the role of an “agent of influence.”
6. Yevtushenko opened a museum-gallery in Peredelkino near Moscow, timed to coincide with his birthday on July 18, 2010. The museum presents a personal collection of paintings donated to Yevtushenko by famous artists - Chagall, Picasso. There is a rare painting by Ernst, one of the founders of surrealism. The museum operates in a specially built building next to the poet’s dacha.
7. The super microbook with the poem “Volga” has a size of 0.5 × 0.45 mm, and is one of the 10 smallest books in the world.

Cinema

In cinema, Yevtushenko is known as an actor, director, screenwriter, and also as the author of poems for songs set to film music.

1964 - “I am Cuba”, director Mikhail Kalatozov). Yevtushenko is the author of the script.

1965 - “Ilyich’s Outpost”, director Marlen Khutsiev. Yevtushenko appears in a documentary insert about a poetry evening at the Polytechnic Museum

1970 - “Literary Concert”, director Alexander Belinsky, “Lentelefilm”), episode “The Fourth Bourgeois”, based on the story by Yevtushenko, - actors Zoya Sokolova and Alexander Semyonov.

1975 - “The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath!”, directed by Eldar Ryazanov. Yevtushenko is the author of the lyrics of M. Tariverdiev’s song “This is what’s happening to me...” performed by Sergei Nikitin.

1977 - “Office Romance”, director Eldar Ryazanov. Yevtushenko is the author of the lyrics to the song “We are chatting in crowded trams...”, music by Andrey Petrov

1979 - “Take Off”, directed by Savva Kulish. Yevtushenko is an actor. In this film he played the main role, the role of K. E. Tsiolkovsky.

1983 - “Kindergarten”. In this film, Yevtushenko is the director and actor.

Documentary

1979 - Our Pushkin, “Lentelefilm”, dir. Vladislav Vinogradov

1984 - My contemporaries, “Lentelefilm”, dir. Vladislav Vinogradov

1990 - Prophets in their fatherland, “Lentelefilm”, dir. Oleg Ryabokon, - chronicle: Yevtushenko reads poetry at the funeral of A.D. Sakharov

Awards and recognition

1969 - Order of the Badge of Honor

1983 - Order of the Red Banner of Labor

1984 - USSR State Prize - for the poem “Mom and the Neutron Bomb”

1993 - Order of Friendship of Peoples - Yevtushenko refused to receive it in protest against the war in Chechnya

1993 - Medal “Defender of Free Russia”

2003 - Tsarskoye Selo Art Prize

2006 - Honorary citizen of the city of Petrozavodsk

2004 - Order of Merit for the Fatherland, III degree

2007 - Honorary Doctor of Petrozavodsk State University

2009 - Commander of the Chilean Order of Bernardo O'Higgins.

2010 - State Prize of Russia.

Honorary Member of the Russian Academy of Arts

2011 - awarded the “Golden Chain of the Commonwealth” - the highest award of the ROO “Russian-speaking Commonwealth of Creative Workers” Also awarded:

Literary awards: “Frugeno-81” (Italy), “SIMBA Academy” in 1984 (Italy), International Golden Lion Award (Venice), etc.

On January 22, 2005, in Turin, Yevtushenko was awarded the Italian literary prize Grinzane Cavour - “for the ability to convey eternal themes through literature, especially to the younger generation.”

In 2007, on the initiative of the World Congress of Russian-Speaking Jews (WKRE), he was nominated for the 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature for the poem “Babi Yar”.

He is an honorary member of the Spanish and American Academies, a professor at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Santo Domingo.

In 1994, a minor planet of the solar system, discovered on May 6, 1978 at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory (4234 Evtushenko), was named after the poet.

Evgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (at birth - Gangnus). Born on July 18, 1932 in Zim, Irkutsk region - died on April 1, 2017 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA. Soviet and Russian poet.

Evgeny Yevtushenko was born on July 18, 1932 in Zim, Irkutsk region. According to other sources - in Nizhneudinsk.

Father - geologist and amateur poet Alexander Rudolfovich Gangnus (Baltic German by origin) (1910-1976).

Mother - Zinaida Ermolaevna Yevtushenko (1910-2002), geologist, actress, Honored Cultural Worker of the RSFSR.

In 1944, upon returning from evacuation from Zima station to Moscow, the mother changed her son’s surname to her maiden name. When filling out the documents to change the surname, a mistake was deliberately made in the date of birth: they wrote down 1933 so as not to receive a pass, which they were supposed to have at the age of 12.

He began publishing in 1949, his first poem was published in the newspaper “Soviet Sport”.

From 1952 to 1957 he studied at the Literary Institute. M. Gorky. Expelled for “disciplinary sanctions”, as well as for supporting Dudintsev’s novel “Not by Bread Alone.”

In 1952, the first book of poems, “Scouts of the Future,” was published; the author subsequently assessed it as youthful and immature.

In 1952, he became the youngest member of the USSR Writers' Union, bypassing the stage of candidate member of the joint venture.

“I was accepted into the Literary Institute without a matriculation certificate and almost simultaneously into the Writers' Union, in both cases considering my book to be sufficient grounds. But I knew her worth. And I wanted to write differently,” he said.

The 1950s, which were a time of poetic boom, saw R. Rozhdestvensky and E. Yevtushenko enter the arena of enormous popularity. The performances of these authors attracted huge stadiums, and the poetry of the Thaw period soon began to be called pop poetry.

In subsequent years, he published several collections that became very popular: “The Third Snow” (1955), “Highway of Enthusiasts” (1956), “Promise” (1957), “Poems of Different Years” (1959), “Apple” (1960) , “Tenderness” (1962), “Wave of the Hand” (1962).

One of the symbols of the thaw were the evenings in the Great Auditorium of the Polytechnic Museum, in which Yevtushenko also took part, along with Robert Rozhdestvensky, Bella Akhmadulina, Bulat Okudzhava and other poets of the wave of the 1960s.

His works are distinguished by a wide range of moods and genre diversity. The first lines from the pathetic introduction to the poem “Bratsk Hydroelectric Power Station” (1965): “A poet in Russia is more than a poet,” is a manifesto of Yevtushenko’s own creativity and a catchphrase that has steadily come into use. The poet is no stranger to subtle and intimate lyrics: the poem “A dog used to sleep at my feet” (1955). In the poem “Northern Surcharge” (1977) he composes a real ode to beer. Several poems and cycles of poems are devoted to foreign and anti-war themes: “Under the Skin of the Statue of Liberty”, “Bullfight”, “Italian Cycle”, “Dove in Santiago”, “Mom and the Neutron Bomb”.

Yevtushenko’s extreme success was facilitated by the simplicity and accessibility of his poems, as well as by the scandals that often arose from criticism around his name.

Yevtushenko's literary style and manner provided a wide field for criticism. He was often reproached for glorification, pompous rhetoric and hidden self-praise.

“Self-glorification cannot take the form of calm, self-confident narcissism, nor can it be an expression of an authentic personality. Ambitions are exceptionally great and have long surpassed the scale of talent. The genre turns out to be fiercely polemical in every word, in every statement, and most importantly, the speaker cannot stop for a minute; having entered into a dispute with time and the world, he is forced to continuously manifest,” wrote literary critic Nikolai Gladkikh about his poem “Fuku!”

Counting on the journalistic effect, Yevtushenko alternately chose topics of current party politics for his poems, for example, “Stalin’s Heirs” (“Pravda,” October 21, 1962) or “Bratsk Hydroelectric Power Station” (1965). Or addressed them to a critical public (for example, “Babi Yar”, 1961, or “The Ballad of Poaching”, 1965).

In 1962, the newspaper Pravda published the widely known poem “Stalin’s Heirs,” timed to coincide with the removal of Stalin’s body from the mausoleum. His other works “Babi Yar” (1961), “Letter to Yesenin” (1965), “Tanks are moving through Prague” (1968) also caused great resonance. Despite such an open challenge to the then authorities, the poet continued to publish and travel throughout the country and abroad.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko is published in the magazines Yunost (he was also on the editorial board of this magazine), Novy Mir, and Znamya, which were reputed to be oppositional in Soviet times.

In 1963 he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

On August 23, 1968, two days after the introduction of tanks into Czechoslovakia, he wrote a protest poem: “Tanks are marching through Prague” (1968).

His speeches in support of Soviet dissidents Brodsky, Solzhenitsyn, and Daniel became famous. Despite this, Joseph Brodsky did not like Yevtushenko (according to Sergei Dovlatov, his catchphrase is known: “If Yevtushenko is against collective farms, then I am for”) and sharply criticized Yevtushenko’s election as an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1987.

Yevtushenko's stage performances have become famous: he successfully reads his own works. He has released several discs and audiobooks in his own performance: “Berry Places”, “Dove in Santiago” and others.

From 1986 to 1991 he was Secretary of the Board of the Union of Writers of the USSR. Since December 1991 - Secretary of the Board of the Commonwealth of Writers' Unions. Since 1989 - co-chairman of the April writers' association. Since 1988 - member of the Memorial Society.

On May 14, 1989, with a huge margin, having received 19 times more votes than the nearest candidate, he was elected as a people's deputy of the USSR from the Dzerzhinsky territorial electoral district of the city of Kharkov and remained so until the end of the existence of the USSR.

In an interview from 1972, published in October 2013, the Nobel Prize laureate spoke extremely negatively about Yevtushenko as a poet and person: “Yevtushenko? You know - it's not that simple. He is, of course, a very bad poet. And he is an even worse person. This is such a huge factory for reproducing itself. By reproducing himself... He has poems that, in general, can even be remembered, loved, liked. I just don’t like the general level of this whole thing. That is, mostly. The main one... the spirit doesn't like this. It’s just disgusting.”

In 1990, he became co-chairman of the All-Union Association of Writers in Support of Perestroika “April”.

In 2007, the Olimpiysky sports complex hosted the premiere of the rock opera “The White Snows Are Coming,” based on the poems of Yevgeny Yevtushenko by composer Gleb May.

Some sources attribute P.A. Sudoplatov’s statement that E. A. Yevtushenko collaborated with the KGB, playing the role of an “agent of influence.” However, in the memoirs of Sudoplatov himself, this is described as a recommendation from Sudoplatov’s wife, a former intelligence officer, to KGB officers who turned to her for advice regarding Yevtushenko: “to establish friendly confidential contacts with him, under no circumstances recruit him as an informant.”

On July 18, 2010, Yevtushenko opened a museum-gallery in Peredelkino near Moscow, coinciding this event with his birthday. The museum presents a personal collection of paintings donated to Yevtushenko by famous artists - Chagall, Picasso. There is a rare painting by Ernst, one of the founders of surrealism. The museum operates in a specially built building next to the poet’s dacha.

Evgeny Yevtushenko's height: 177 centimeters.

Personal life of Yevgeny Yevtushenko:

Yevgeny Yevtushenko was officially married 4 times.

The first wife is a poetess. They have been married since 1954.

The second wife is Galina Semyonovna Sokol-Lukonina. Married since 1961.

The third wife is Jan Butler, Irish, his passionate fan. Married since 1978. The marriage produced sons Alexander and Anton.

The fourth wife is Maria Vladimirovna Novikova (born 1962). Married since 1987. The couple had sons Evgeniy and Dmitry.

Illness and death of Yevgeny Yevtushenko

In 2013, the poet underwent a complex operation. In the USA, in a clinic in Tulsa (Oklahoma), 81-year-old Evgeniy Aleksandrovich had his right leg amputated. Yevtushenko’s leg problems began back in 1997. His ankle joint wore out and he was fitted with a titanium one. At first everything went well, but then the poet began to suffer unbearable pain - it turned out that the titanium joint in his leg did not take root. Ultimately, the situation went so far that doctors had to amputate the limb.

On December 14, 2014, during a tour in Rostov-on-Don, Evgeny Yevtushenko was hospitalized due to a sharp deterioration in his health. Next, the poet was transferred to the Burdenko Research Institute of Neurosurgery, and then to the Central Clinical Hospital of the Presidential Administration in Moscow. Then the poet ended up in the hospital after he slipped and hit his head while getting out of the bathroom. In addition, information appeared in the press that Yevtushenko’s hospitalization was directly related to suspected acute heart failure and a fracture of the temporal bone.

In August 2015, in Moscow, doctors at the Central Clinical Military Hospital named after P. V. Mandryk performed an operation on Yevtushenko’s heart. To eliminate problems with the heart rhythm, the poet was given a pacemaker during the operation.

On March 31, 2017, the poet was hospitalized in serious condition. “Evgeniy Aleksandrovich was hospitalized in serious condition, I can’t talk about the details yet. I can only say that this is not a routine examination,” said wife Maria Novikova.

According to reports from relatives and friends, . “He had irreversible cancer. After studying the tests, doctors gave him three months to live, but he lived less than a month,” said a close friend of the family, Mikhail Morgulis. This diagnosis was made by American doctors about six years ago. At the same time, the poet underwent surgery and part of his kidney was removed. A month before his death, doctors diagnosed the fourth and final stage of cancer.

“He passed away quite calmly, painlessly. I held his hand for about an hour before his death. He knew that we were loved,” said the writer’s son Evgeniy.

The poet left a will in which he expressed his desire to be buried at the Peredelkinskoye cemetery next to Boris Pasternak.

April 10 was held in the Church of the Holy Blessed Prince Igor of Chernigov in Peredelkino. The funeral service was performed by the former head of the press service of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus', rector of the Church of the Holy Martyr Tatiana at Moscow State University, publicist and literary critic Vladimir Vigilyansky.

Poems by Yevgeny Yevtushenko:

1953-1956 - “Station Winter”
1961 - “Babi Yar”
1965 - “Bratsk Hydroelectric Power Station”
1965 - “Pushkin Pass”
1967 - “Bullfight”
1968 - “Under the Skin of the Statue of Liberty”
1970 - “Kazan University”
1971 - “Where are you from?”
1974 - “Snow in Tokyo”
1976 - “Ivanovo chintz”
1977 - “Northern Surcharge”
1974-1978 - “Dove in Santiago”
1980 - “Nepryadva”
1982 - “Mom and the Neutron Bomb”
1984 - “Distant Relative”
1985 - “Fuku!”
1996 - “Thirteen”
1996-2000 - “Full growth”
1975-2000 - “Proseka”
2011 - “Dora Franco”

Novels by Yevgeny Yevtushenko:

1982 - “Berry Places”
1993 - “Don’t Die Before You Die”

Collections of poems by Evgeny Yevtushenko:

1952 - “Scouts of the Future”;
1955 - “The Third Snow”;
1956 - “Highway of Enthusiasts”;
1957 - “The Promise”;
1959 - “Bow and Lyre”;
1959 - “Poems of different years”;
1960 - “Apple”;
1962 - “Wave of the Hand”;
1962 - “Tenderness”;
1965 - “Bratsk Hydroelectric Power Station”;
1966 - “Communication Boat”;
1966 - “Pitching”;
1966 - “This is what’s happening to me”;
1967 - “Poems and poem “Bratsk Hydroelectric Power Station””;
1967 - “Poems”;
1969 - “White Snow is Falling”;
1971 - “I am of Siberian breed”;
1971 - “Kazan University”;
1972 - “The Singing Dam”;
1972 - “Road No. 1”;
1973 - “Intimate lyrics”;
1973 - “A poet in Russia is more than a poet”;
1975 - “Father’s Hearing”;
1976 - “Thank you”;
1977 - “Full growth”;
1977 - “Glade”;
1978 - “Morning People”;
1978 - “Oath to space”;
1978 - “Compromise Kompromisovich”;
1979 - “Heavier than the Earth”;
1980 - “Welding by explosion”;
1981 - “Poems”;
1982 - “Two pairs of skis”;
1983 - “Mom and the Neutron Bomb” and other poems”;
1983 - “Where I Come From”;
1985 - “Almost at last”;
1986 - “Half a Vintage”;
1987 - “Tomorrow’s Wind”;
1987 - “Poems”;
1988 - “The Last Try”;
1989 - "1989";
1989 - “Citizens, listen to me”;
1989 - “Darling, sleep”;
1990 - “Green Gate”;
1990 - “Last attempt”;
1990 - “Belarusian blood”;
1990 - “Poems and Poems”;
1993 - “No Years: Love Lyrics”;
1994 - “My Golden Riddle”;
1995 - “My very best”;
1995 - “Last Tears”;
1997 - “Slow Love”;
1997 - “Nipper”;
1999 - “Stolen Apples”;
2001 - “I will break through into the 21st century...”;
2007 - “The window looks out onto white trees”;
2007 - “Anthem of Russia”;
2008 - “Poems of the XXI century”;
2009 - “My Football Games”;
2011 - “You can still save”;
2012 - “Happiness and Retribution”;
2013 - “I don’t know how to say goodbye”

Songs by Evgeny Yevtushenko:

“Still, there is something in our people” (Al. Karelin) - performed by Nat. Moskvina;
“And the snow will fall” (G. Ponomarenko) - Spanish. Klavdiya Shulzhenko;
“And the snow will fall” (D. Tukhmanov) - Spanish. Muslim Magomaev;
“Grandmothers” (Al. Karelin) - Spanish. M. Zadornov and Nat. Moskvina;
“Ballad of Friendship” (E. Krylatov);
“The Ballad of the Fishing Village of Ayu” (Yu. Saulsky) - Spanish. A. Gradsky;
“Even with every effort” (A. Pugacheva) - Spanish. Alla Pugacheva;
“You will love me” (N. Martynov) - Spanish. Victor Krivonos;
“Eyes of Love” (“There is always a woman’s hand”) (Brandon Stone) - Spanish. Brandon Stone;
“Eyes of Love” (“There is always a woman’s hand”) (Mikael Tariverdiev) - Spanish. Galina Besedina;
“God willing” (Raymond Pauls) - Spanish. A. Malinin;
“Dolphins” (Yu. Saulsky) - Spanish. VIA "Watercolors";
“Child is a villain” (group “Dialogue”) - Spanish. Kim Breitburg (Gr. “Dialogue”);
“Envy” (V. Makhlyankin) - Spanish. Valentin Nikulin;
“Ingratiation” (I. Talkov) - Spanish. Igor Talkov; (group “Dialogue”) - Spanish. Kim Breitburg (Gr. “Dialogue”);
“Spell” (I. Luchenok) - Spanish. Victor Vujacic;
“Spell” (E. Horovets) - Spanish. Emil Horovets;
“Will the clover field make noise” (E. Krylatov) - Spanish. Eduard Khil, Lyudmila Gurchenko;
“Like a hollow ear” (V. Makhlyankin) - Spanish. Valentin Nikulin;
“Recording kiosk” (group “Dialogue”) - Spanish. Kim Breitburg (Gr. “Dialogue”);
“When the bells ring” (V. Pleshak) - Spanish. Eduard Khil;
“When Your Face Came Up” (Brandon Stone);
“When a man is forty years old” (I. Nikolaev) - Spanish. Alexander Kalyanov;
“When a person comes to Russia” (Al. Karelin) - Spanish. Nat. Moskvina;
“When a man betrays a man” (E. Krylatov) - Spanish. Gennady Trofimov;
“I understood something in this life” (E. Horovets) - Spanish. Emil Horovets;
“Bell” (Al. Karelin) - Spanish. Nat. Moskvina;
"Wallet" (Brandon Stone);
“Darling, sleep” (D. Tukhmanov) - Spanish. Valery Obodzinsky, Leonid Berger (VIA “Jolly Fellows”), A. Gradsky;
“Love is a child of the planet” (D. Tukhmanov) - Spanish. VIA “Jolly Fellows”;
“There are no uninteresting people in the world” (V. Makhlyankin) - Spanish. Shaft. Nikulin;
“Metamorphoses” (Al. Karelin) - Spanish. M. Zadornov and Nat. Moskvina;
“Our difficult Soviet man” (A. Babajanyan) - Spanish. Georg Ots, Muslim Magomaev;
“No need to be afraid” (E. Krylatov) - Spanish. Gennady Trofimov;
“Don't rush” (A. Babajanyan) - Spanish. Muslim Magomaev, Anna German;
“No Years” (Sergei Nikitin);
“Am I really mortal” (S. Nikitin, P. I. Tchaikovsky);
“Nobody’s” (Yu. Saulsky) - Spanish. Zaur Tutov, A. Gradsky;
“Russian Songs” (Al. Karelin) - Spanish. Nat. Moskvina;
“My Song” (E. Krylatov) - Spanish. Gene. Trofimov;
“Crying for a brother” (S. Nikitin);
“Crying for a communal apartment” (Louise Khmelnitskaya) - Spanish. Gelena Velikanova, Joseph Kobzon;
“Under the creaking, weeping willow ("How to make your beloved happy")" (G. Movsesyan) - Spanish. Georgy Movsesyan, Joseph Kobzon;
“Let me hope” (A. Babajanyan) - Spanish. Vladimir Popkov;
“Confession” (Yu. Saulsky) - Spanish. Sofia Rotaru, Ksenia Georgiadi;
“The Princess and the Pea” (Al. Karelin) - Spanish. Nat. Moskvina;
“A simple song of Bulat” (Al. Karelin) - Spanish. Nat. Moskvina;
“Professor” (group “Dialogue”) - Spanish. Kim Breitburg (Gr. “Dialogue”);
“Child” (Al. Karelin) - Spanish. M. Zadornov and Nat. Moskvina;
“Motherland” (B. Terentyev) - Spanish. VIA "Blue Bird";
“Spring” (Al. Karelin) - Spanish. Nat. Moskvina;
“Romance” (E. Horovets) - Spanish. Emil Horovets;
“The fresh smell of linden trees” (I. Nikolaev) - Spanish. A. Kalyanov;
“Save and preserve” (E. Krylatov) - Spanish. Valentina Tolkunova;
“Old Friend” (I. Nikolaev) - Spanish. A. Kalyanov;
“Your traces” (Arno Babajanyan) - Spanish. People Zykina, Sofia Rotaru;
“Til” (A. Petrov) - Spanish. Ed. Gil;
“You are leaving like a train” (M. Tariverdiev) - Spanish. VIA "Singing Guitars";
“By the Sea” (B. Emelyanov) - Spanish. Vakhtang Kikabidze;
“My beloved is leaving” (V. Makhlyankin) - Spanish. Shaft. Nikulin;
“The Church must be prayed for” (Al. Karelin) - Spanish. Nat. Moskvina;
“Ferris Wheel” (Arno Babajanyan) - Spanish. Muslim Magomaev;
“What does love know about love” (A. Eshpai) - Spanish. Lyudmila Gurchenko;
“I am a citizen of the Soviet Union” (D. Tukhmanov) - Spanish. Muslim Magomaev;
“I love you more than nature” (R. Pauls) - Spanish. Irina Dubtsova;
“I stopped loving you” (V. Makhlyankin) - Spanish. Shaft. Nikulin;
“I want to bring it” (E. Krylatov) - Spanish. Gennady Trofimov;
“The river runs” - Spanish. People Zykina, Lyudmila Senchina, Maria Pakhomenko;
“Waltz about Waltz” - Spanish. Klavdiya Shulzhenko, Maya Kristalinskaya;
“Long farewell” - Spanish. Lev Leshchenko;
“White snow is falling” - Spanish. Gelena Velikanova, V. Troshin;
“Sooner or later” - Spanish. V. Troshin;
“My Motherland” - Spanish. People Zykina;
"Ancient Tango" - Spanish. Vit. Markov, Joseph Kobzon;
“Comrade Guitar” - Spanish. Klavdiya Shulzhenko;
“Killers walk the earth” - Spanish. Arthur Eisen, Mark Bernes, Alexandrov Ensemble;
“Do Russians want war?” (dedicated to Mark Bernes) - Spanish. Yuri Gulyaev, Mark Bernes, Vad. Ruslanov

Filmography of Evgeny Yevtushenko:

Actor:

1965 - “Ilyich’s Outpost” (Yevtushenko appears in a documentary insert about a poetry evening at the Polytechnic Museum)
1979 - “Take Off” - K. E. Tsiolkovsky
1983 - “Kindergarten” - chess player
1990 - “Stalin’s Funeral” - sculptor

Director:

1983 - “Kindergarten”
1990 - “Stalin’s Funeral”

Screenwriter:

1964 - “I am Cuba” (with Enrique Pineda Barnet)
1990 - “Stalin’s Funeral”

Songs:

1961 - “Career of Dima Gorin.” Song “And it’s snowing” (Andrey Eshpai) - Spanish. Maya Kristalinskaya. The song was also performed by Zhanna Aguzarova, Angelika Varum;
1975 - “The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath!”, directed by Eldar Ryazanov. Song “This is what is happening to me...” (Mikael Tariverdiev - performed by S. Nikitin);
1977 - “Office Romance”, director Eldar Ryazanov. Song “We are chatting in crowded trams...” Andrey Petrov;
1977-1978 - songs from the series “And It’s All About Him” (based on the novel by Vil Lipatov). Music by E. Krylatov: “Alder Earring” - Spanish. Gennady Trofimov, Eduard Khil;
“No need to be afraid” - Spanish. A. Kavalerov;
"Steps" - Spanish. Gene. Trofimov;
1981 - “Night Witches” in the sky. Song “When you sing songs on Earth...” (E. Krylatov) - Spanish. Elena Kamburova.

Once, while visiting Bella Akhmadulina, a tipsy Vasily Shukshin began to make fun of Yevtushenko: they say, what is he - a Siberian who grew up at the Zima station, wears a bow tie like the last dude! tarpaulin boots - not foppishness?..” The argument ended with the poet agreeing to remove the “butterfly”, on the condition that the writer take off his tarpaulin boots. The result of this story was the poem “Bow Tie...”

All his life, Yevtushenko dressed unusually, preferring colorful, brightly colored jackets, shirts and ties. According to Evgeniy Aleksandrovich’s explanation, such a passion came from his Siberian childhood during the war years - as a contrast to the black quilted jackets with numbers on the backs, which were worn by the gloomy prisoners who marched in endless columns to the prison camps, and the dusty earthy overcoats of the Vokhrovites accompanying them...

Photo: Anatoly Lomokhov

2. At Zima station, Irkutsk region, June 18, 1932, the future poet was born

On his father’s side he has Latvian, German and Belarusian roots, on his mother’s side – Polish and Ukrainian. Father Alexander Gangnus worked as a hydrogeologist; his developments were used in the construction of the Bratsk hydroelectric power station. Mother Zinaida Ermolaevna is an actress by second profession. Having not completed her studies at the Geological Exploration Institute, she entered the Music College named after. MM. Ippolitov-Ivanova, after graduating from which she became a soloist of the Moscow Theater. K.S. Stanislavsky.

In 1944, Evgeniy’s parents divorced - his father had another woman, but his communication with his son did not stop. Being an amateur poet himself, he gave the teenager a brilliant literary education.

3. At the very beginning of the war, parents sent 9-year-old Zhenya to be evacuated to his grandmothers

The boy traveled to the Irkutsk region alone. The journey took four and a half months. I rode as I had to, mostly on the roofs of train cars, tied with a belt to the ventilation hatch. I came under bombing more than once. However, the most terrible test was hunger. He earned a crust of bread and a mug of boiling water by reading poetry on the platforms. At one of the stops in the Urals, I went to a market where women were selling freshly boiled potatoes. Fascinated by the aroma, he picked up one potato and began to smell it. Noticing this, the traders attacked the hungry boy and began to beat him. Broken ribs. I escaped from the angry speculators by a miracle - the street children fought off...

Yevtushenko Evgeniy with his mother Zinaida Ermolaevna (1993). Photo: Nikolay Malyshev/TASS

4. “I stopped drinking vodka when I was 19.”

In the Abkhaz village of Gulripsh, where Yevtushenko had his own house, he was considered a famous winemaker. At one time, rumors spread about the poet's addiction to alcohol. False. “I stopped drinking vodka at the age of 19. - said the poet. “And he drank it from the age of 12...” This is when during the war he worked at a factory that produced grenades. In chilly Siberia, even children were allowed to drink so that they would not freeze... Yevtushenko developed his own philosophy regarding alcohol consumption. He believed that you could only drink when you were in a good mood. Because this process enhances exactly the state in which a person is currently located - be it depression or joy...

5. The future poet composed his first poems at the age of 5:

“Why is it so cold, why am I having difficulty breathing?

Because Aunt Puddle became fat Uncle Ice..."

From childhood, he began to compile his own dictionary of rhymes, which, as it seemed to the boy, did not yet exist in poetry. There were about 10 thousand of them. Alas, over the years the notebook with these notes was lost...

Songs that have long become popular songs were written based on Yevtushenko’s poems: “The river runs, it melts in the fog...”, “Do Russians want war”, “Waltz about the waltz”, “Ferris wheel”, “And it’s snowing...”, “Your traces”, “Don’t rush”, “God willing...”

In addition to Russian, Yevgeny Yevtushenko was fluent in four languages: English, French, Italian and Spanish.

6. In 1991, Evgeniy Alexandrovich left with his family for America

He taught Russian poetry and Russian cinema at the University of Tulsa, Oklahoma and Queens College in New York.

By the way, Evgeniy Aleksandrovich received a diploma of higher education only in 2001. The fact is that shortly before graduating from the Literary Institute. A. M. Gorky, fifth-year student Yevtushenko received disciplinary sanctions for publicly supporting Dudintsev’s officially condemned novel “Not by Bread Alone,” after which he was expelled from the university.

Petrozavodsk. Poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko with his wife Maria and sons (seven-year-old Dima and five-year-old Zhenya) visiting his mother-in-law Gana Nikolaevna Novikova. (1994). Photo by Semyon Meisterman/TASS

7. In 1963, the poet was nominated for the Nobel Prize for the poem “Babi Yar”

In the USSR, for these same poems, which raised the topic of the Holocaust, which was taboo in the USSR, he was accused of anti-patriotism. Miraculously published in Literaturnaya Gazeta, it had the effect of a bomb exploding. All copies of that issue were immediately sold out. But the scandal erupted in earnest. And the editor-in-chief of “Literature,” Valery Kosolapov, who decided to publish it, soon lost his position... Impressed by “Babi Yar,” Dmitry Shostakovich composed his famous 13th symphony. Which, having been performed once, was immediately removed from the repertoire...

8. Yevtushenko was officially married four times

The first legal wife was Bella Akhmadulina. They lived together for only three years, and all this time the husband was desperately jealous of his beautiful wife and her countless admirers. Stormy quarrels between the spouses gave way to no less stormy reconciliations... Passionate love ended due to Bella's pregnancy - the young poet was not ready for the birth of a child and forced his wife to have an abortion. For which he subsequently, bitterly repenting, blamed himself for the rest of his life.

With Voznesensky and Akhmadulina (1984). Photo: Global Look Press

Evgeniy was married to his second wife, Galina Sokol-Lukonina, for 17 years. They knew each other long before the divorce from Akhmadullina, but got together only after both of their marriages began to crack at the seams. After seven years of marriage, the couple took a baby from the orphanage and adopted a boy, Petya (1967), whose godmother was Galina Volchek. He became an artist.

According to the stories of relatives, the marriage broke up due to Evgeniy’s numerous affairs on the side. After the divorce, the husband and wife maintained friendly relations. And his father never left his adopted son with his attention: he paid for his education in America, provided him with an apartment... However, Peter, especially after the death of his mother, developed an alcohol addiction. Two years ago, he died of sudden cardiac arrest in a psychiatric hospital, where he spent six months due to mental illness.

For the third time, Yevtushenko married Irishwoman Jan Butler. She worked in a Soviet publishing house, was engaged in translations of Russian literature and was an ardent admirer of the poet... This marriage, which lasted eight years, gave Yevtushenko two sons: Alexander (1979) and Anton (1981). Both were born and live in London. The firstborn works as a journalist for the BBC. The second son is disabled. Anton was diagnosed with a rare incurable disease.

Evgeny Yevtushenko with his wife Jan (Jan Butler) Moscow (January 22, 1979). Photo: East News

From 1987 until his last day, Evgeniy Alexandrovich’s life was connected with Maria Novikova (married to Yevtushenko). They were separated by age by 30 years. We met when Yevtushenko was filing for a divorce from Dzhan. It so happened that young Masha, a graduate of a medical school, approached the legendary poet to ask for an autograph for her mother. Five months later they got married.

Unable to find a job in America in a medical specialty, Maria received another education - philology, and devoted herself to teaching. Teaches Russian language and literature to college students.

In this marital union, Evgeny Yevtushenko also had two sons: Evgeny (1989) and Dmitry (1990). Both write poetry and translate their father's poetry into English. The eldest is studying political science. The younger one is a computer scientist and plans to become a philologist.

9. Yevtushenko’s relatives were close to him until the very end...39_014

Death began to creep up on the poet long ago. In 2013, due to the developing inflammatory process, Yevtushenko’s leg was amputated. Having barely recovered from the operation, the poet flew to Russia and gave more than 40 concerts around the country...

A year and a half ago, he was hospitalized in Moscow with a diagnosis of arrhythmia. To eliminate problems associated with the heart rhythm, he was fitted with a pacemaker...

This year, a large festival was being prepared for the poet’s anniversary: ​​in addition to anniversary evenings in various halls in Moscow, Yevtushenko planned to go on a tour of the cities of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan.

According to TASS, two days before hospitalization, in a telephone conversation with the general producer of the special events, Sergei Vinnikov, Evgeniy Alexandrovich addressed him with two requests. Firstly, he expressed his wish to be buried in Russia - in the writer's village of Peredelkino, not far from the grave of Boris Pasternak. And, admitting that he was in extremely serious condition, he said: “I apologize... for letting you down very badly. But... I ask you that the projects we have planned together - an evening in the Great Hall of the Conservatory and a performance in the Kremlin Palace - take place without me. Promise me this. I will die with a calm soul..."

Next to the poet in his last hours were his sons Evgeny and Dmitry, and their mother Maria Vladimirovna, now the widow of Evgeny Alexandrovich...